It's President's Day so here are words from some of our greatest Presidents.. and because it's an oppurtunity to celebrate the Presidency of the great Ronald Reagan, he gets three--and gets to go first:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
Ronald Reagan
"There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves."
George Washington
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
James Madison
"One man with courage makes a majority."
Andrew Jackson
"It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service."
Ulysses S Grant
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt
"We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
Franklin D Roosevelt
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything."
Harry S Truman
"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
Dwight D Eisenhower
"The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
Richard Nixon
"God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands."
George W Bush
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